Demoness, I Want You to Help Me Attain the Path

Of course, she could not truly be seeking death.

After all, as one of the Holy Spirit Cult's Heavenly Kings, she understood better than anyone that "as long as you live, there is still a chance to turn things around."

Originally, she had planned to wait until Cao Xin let his guard down...

Then severely injure him and escape.

Yet this brat was actually so cautious.

He had directly dragged her into a domain, completely cutting off every possibility of escape.

Damn little brat!

Na Nali roared madly in her heart.

At such a young age.

Where was his pride?

Where was his hot-blooded spirit?

Why was he playing it so safe?!

By all rights...

Shouldn't a seven-year-old child who had defeated a Super Douluo be feeling triumphant?

Yet this brat was as cautious as an old monster who had lived for centuries, not leaving her even the slightest opportunity.

"This is the world within my heart."

At this moment, Cao Xin was in a very good mood.

Over the course of these three days and three nights of pursuit, he had comprehended the spatial Self-Created Soul Skill, Thousand-Mile Bright Moon.

This insight had come from a poem by Su Shi, the Poet Sage from his previous life: "Prelude to Water Melody: When Will the Bright Moon Appear?"

The Self-Created Soul Skill Thousand-Mile Bright Moon, meanwhile, had been comprehended from these two lines: "Men have joys and sorrows, partings and reunions; the moon has its dark and bright, full and waning phases. Such perfection has been difficult since ancient times. May we live long, though a thousand miles apart, we share the beauty of the moon."

The effect of this Soul Skill was also very simple.

Beneath the moonlight, he could arrive anywhere in an instant!

Of course...

The distance of his teleportation depended on his cultivation.

But at this moment, Na Nali suddenly revealed a strange smile.

The corners of her lips slowly curled upward, that smile filled with the madness and smugness of having survived a catastrophe.

"Within your heart?"

She repeated those two words.

A feverish light burst from her eyes.

She was, within the Holy Spirit Cult...

The Evil Soul Master most skilled at manipulating emotions!

Decades of cultivation had given her precise and seasoned control over the human heart and its desires.

She had originally thought she was finished this time.

Yet she had never expected this youth to pull her into his heart.

It was like letting a starving wolf into a sheepfold!

At this moment, strands of pink light emerged from Na Nali's body and spread into the surroundings.

She looked at Cao Xin and laughed loudly.

"Brat, you actually dared to drag me into your heart. You've got some nerve!"

"Die!"

Very quickly, more and more of the pure white space was dyed pink.

The madness in Na Nali's eyes also grew deeper and deeper.

As long as she killed this youth...

She could live!

But Cao Xin watched Na Nali calmly from beginning to end.

His gaze was clear as water, without surprise or panic, without even the slightest ripple.

It had to be said...

Na Nali's reaction had truly been fast.

And this move had truly been effective.

Seizing a sliver of life from certain death and immediately betting all her strength on it, her decisiveness and sharpness indeed deserved her title as one of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Unfortunately, the gap between them was simply too great.

One had to know that the conceptual ability of [Self] was fundamentally dependent on his heart, and then influenced reality.

But what if they were already inside his heart?

And this blank space itself was an extension of his state of mind, so here...

What he thought existed, and what he envisioned came to be.

Here, he was the sole master!

With a slight movement of Cao Xin's will, the blank space instantly transformed into a lush forest.

Towering ancient trees, winding vines, grass and wildflowers carpeting the ground, and the fragrance of vegetation filled the air.

At this moment, the pink light melted into this world the instant it touched the forest, becoming a part of it.

"How is that possible?!"

"How did you do that?!"

Na Nali was shocked as well.

This was her power!

How could it have been absorbed by Cao Xin?!

Or rather...

What gave Cao Xin the right to absorb her power?

In response, Cao Xin raised the Ruthless Sword. Its blade glimmered with a gentle azure light beneath the sunlight filtering through the forest.

He spoke calmly.

"Spring is the season when all things revive, and also the season of reproduction. Your seduction is ultimately only one part of reproduction."

His voice was calm and lucid, as though he were stating an eternal truth.

The essence of seduction was reproduction.

This was the true principle behind all things in heaven and earth.

Spring flowers attracted bees and butterflies in pursuit of pollination.

Female beasts attracted male beasts in pursuit of mating.

And human emotional seduction...

No matter how splendidly it was embellished, at its root, it could never escape that most primitive law.

Na Nali's path of seduction was merely a tributary flowing into the vast ocean of spring.

"No! No! Don't!"

Somehow...

Na Nali could sense that death was about to descend.

A broken, pleading expression appeared in her eyes, and her beautiful face twisted out of shape in terror.

"Spare me!"

"Master, I am willing to serve as your slave and maid!"

As she spoke, she directly knelt down, pressing her forehead against the damp earth as her body trembled violently.

But Cao Xin merely looked down at her from above.

"Demoness, I want you to help me attain the Path!"

As he spoke.

Cao Xin's will influenced this world.

Pink motes of light continuously rose from Na Nali's body, then were absorbed into this world one by one.

She let out a brief scream.

Then her entire body collapsed limply to the ground, as though all her strength had been drained away, utterly motionless.

Cao Xin, meanwhile, sat down cross-legged.

He began comprehending the deeper intent of spring.

Three days later, Cao Xin opened his eyes.

The light in them was as clear and gentle as thawing spring water, carrying the vigorous vitality of all things reviving.

He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, which turned into an extremely faint azure mist in the air.

It scattered with the wind.

With Na Nali's assistance, his understanding of the intent of spring had deepened further.

His current understanding of "spring" was no longer merely flowers blooming and leaves flourishing.

Instead, it had touched upon the deepest essence—

Endless life.

Thus, the barrier of his four-ring cultivation had already broken through.

As long as he obtained his fifth soul ring and combined it with an Upgrade Pill, he could immediately possess fifty-ninth-rank Soul Power.

Fifty-ninth rank, at seven years old.

Even Cao Xin was briefly dazed.

Good heavens.

His strength was probably unprecedented, wasn't it?

Even if one searched through the historical records of the Douluo Continent spanning tens of thousands of years.

There was likely no second Soul Master who, at the age of seven...

Had become a Soul King.

Tang San of the first generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters had still been sparring with others over the basics at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy when he was seven.

Huo Yuhao, ten thousand years ago, had merely been an illegitimate child suffering cold stares in the Duke's residence at the age of seven.

Yet he had already carved out an untrodden path on the road of slaying demons and exterminating evil.

One could only say, it truly was worthy of the Path of Immortal Gods.

Compared to the Path of Divine Thrones of the Douluo Plane...

It was far more formidable.

At that moment, Cao Xin recalled the youth he had seen in Eastsea City three nights ago.

Tang Wulin.

The Child of Destiny of this era.

Tang San's son, Tang Hao's grandson.